Half of my library is encoded with libopus, it compresses better and retains quality at lower bitrates. The other half is not opus yet because I can’t be bothered to hunt for flacs to convert, since lossy->lossy conversion degrades the data…
Picture this: You take a sheet of pristine A4 paper (lossless), you crumple it up to reduce size (mp3), then you attempt to uncrumple it and carefully fold it to reduce size (opus). Your sheet still has that uneven texture due tu crumpling. Or, you take the pristine sheet, and just carefully fold it multiple times. In both cases it is deformed and can never be lossless again, but folded paper still has more quality, and takes less space.
Let’s make our own gameflacs.net with flacjack and toorrents
Yeah and porn!
Actually, forget the flacjack. And the torrents. Ah, forget the whole thing.
Chads use Opus
do they really though? i saw some on slsk but i was like
wha
Half of my library is encoded with libopus, it compresses better and retains quality at lower bitrates. The other half is not opus yet because I can’t be bothered to hunt for flacs to convert, since lossy->lossy conversion degrades the data…
Okay but lossless to lossy also degrades the quality.
Picture this: You take a sheet of pristine A4 paper (lossless), you crumple it up to reduce size (mp3), then you attempt to uncrumple it and carefully fold it to reduce size (opus). Your sheet still has that uneven texture due tu crumpling. Or, you take the pristine sheet, and just carefully fold it multiple times. In both cases it is deformed and can never be lossless again, but folded paper still has more quality, and takes less space.